Product Roles

The Agile Product Owner Responsibilities

In theory, the product owner’s responsibilities are simple: The individual should maximise the value the product creates according to the…

9 years ago

Size Matters: Big vs. Small Product Owner

Product owners come in different shapes and sizes. That's only natural: The application of the role varies depending on the…

10 years ago

Which UX Skills should Product Owners and Product Managers have?

Providing a great user experience is a must for many digital products, and user experience (UX) design has consequently become…

10 years ago

The Product Owner’s Checklist for the First Sprint

Scrum is a popular agile framework for developing a product with the right features and the right technologies. Unfortunately, it…

10 years ago

The Product Owner’s Guide to the Sprint Retrospective

The sprint retrospective is a key mechanism in Scrum to improve the way people work. This article shares my tips…

11 years ago

Every Great Product Owner Needs a Great Scrum Master

The Scrum product owner and the Scrum Master are two separate roles that complement each other. To do a great…

11 years ago

The Picasso Product Owner: Balancing Users, Team, and Stakeholders

Working as a product owner is fun and challenging at times. One challenge is to balance two separate concerns: the…

11 years ago

Product Owner Empowerment

Playing the product owner role can be challenging: It requires the authority to say no to ideas, request, and feedback…

12 years ago

Intuition and Data in Product Management

Making the right product decisions is tough. Some product owners trust their intuition, others rely on data. Find out which…

13 years ago

The Highlander Principle

If you grew up as a teenager in the 1980s like me, you are probably familiar with the quote “There…

13 years ago